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  • Summer camp gives girls high-tech head start

    Camps provide weeklong day and overnight technology programs for students 8 to 17 years old. By: Jeff Milgram    In a couple of years, Marielisa Marin, 17, a junior at Princeton High School, will have to worry about college.    So will her friend, Viridiana Martinez, a 16-year-old junior at Lawrence High School.    Right now, Marielisa wants…

  • WW 12s can’t repeat rally vs. Ewing in District 12 play

    Face HTRBA tonight in elimination game By: Justin Feil    EWING — The West Windsor Little League baseball team was hoping that it could pull the same comeback it did last year against Ewing as 11-year-olds. But Ewing didn’t cooperate while proving to be a much improved team in winning, 11-1, Sunday in the District 12…

  • West Nile virus remains a local health concern

       The Princeton Health Department is urging residents to take precautions against mosquitoes, which can carry the West Nile virus.    West Nile virus, which emerged in the New York metropolitan region in the summer of 1999, affects mostly birds and humans. Mosquitoes spread the virus while biting a subject to ingest blood.    While most people infected…

  • Rise in chopper traffic stirs protest at airport

    The final word on the helicopter issue may come from the Federal Aviation Administration. By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — Neighbors of Princeton Airport on Route 206 are poised to protest the possibility of increased helicopter traffic in the vicinity of their homes.    Residents are worried that a heliport initially planned for construction on the Route…

  • Land trust finds ways to keep our area green

    Delaware & Raritan Greenway has preserved more than 6,000 acres of land valued at more than $113 million. By: David Campbell    Regional land trust Delaware & Raritan Greenway just keeps getting greener.    Last month, Greenway Executive Director Linda Mead stood with Gov. James E. McGreevey to announce the preservation of the 400-acre United Water property…

  • Consumers can help ‘complete the cycle’

    GOOD EARTHKEEPING, July 8 By: Sandy Batty    Each year in the United States, we discard over 200 million tons of unwanted materials into landfills and incinerators. Trash disposal is expensive and polluting, and landfill space is finite.    Recycling is an important part of the answer to this problem. Collecting and turning used plastics, metals and…

  • Beyond Organic

    A handful of local farmers are finding alternatives to factory farming, an effort with the potential to radically alter the way we eat and live. Part one in a three-part series on the regional organic movement. By: Amy Brummer    Over Kelley Harding’s dining room door is a small folk painting of a farmhouse flanked by…

  • Interlocal policing on brink of approval

    Agreement will call for South Bound Brook police to patrol Rocky Hill on a part-time basis for three months. By: Paul Sisolak    ROCKY HILL — The Borough Council is expected to enter into a pilot, interlocal policing agreement Thursday with South Bound Brook.    The council will hold a special meeting 7 p.m. Thursday at which…

  • Loss doesn’t alter Princeton 12s’ outlook

    Could face Cranbury-Plainsboro in losers’ bracket tonight By: Justin Feil    EWING — Even after its first loss of the District 12 Little League baseball tournament dropped it to the losers’ bracket, the Princeton 12-year-olds didn’t feel any more pressure than usual.    "They have already put the game behind them," said Princeton manager Larry Peterson of…